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THE MONO F NTEAM.
[The following fine poem, which Black-
J 0 '**** Magazine pronounced to lie the
best lyric of the country, is by George
W. Cutter, of Covington, Kentucky. ]
llwnees me down with your Iron bend*.
Me eure of your curb and rein,
, * acors the atrenjfth u t your puny band*
Aa a tempest scorns a chain.
* Uoffhed n I lay concealed from fright*
“H.Vhour,
At A *J*f t*oasts of human mijrtit,
And the pride of human power.
When I sew an army upon the land.
A navy npnu Uu wae,
Creeping along, a snail-lik. hand,
Wr waiting a wayward brecae;
WJJJJ I saw the peasant reel
with the toil that he family bore,
, ,“ e . *’?, n Y** ** the tardy wheel,
Or tolled at the weary car;
I measured the panting counter* r| ed,
o** flight of the carrier dove,
~* re * l,w ’ ‘ d.-ereed,
'lf the Hues of Impatient love,
1 could hot think how the world would fet 1
As these were outstripped afar.
When I should be tiounu to the ruahing keel,
Or chained to the flying car.
Ha! ha: ha! they found me at last,
The* Invited me forth at length.
And I rushed to my throne like a thunder l)iat.
Am laughed In my Iron strength.
Ob. then ye saw a wondrous change
On the earth and ocean wide.
Where now my firry armies range,
Nor wait lor wind or tide.
Hurrah ! hurrah! the waters o'er.
The mountains steep decline;
Time—spar e -have yielded to my power—
The world ! the world is mine!
The rivers the sat. has earliest blest.
Or those where his beams decline,
The giant streams of the queenly West,
Or the Orient floods divine.
The ocean pales wherever I sweep
To liear my strength rejoice,
And monsters rf the briny deep
Cower trembling st my voice.
I carry the wealth and ore of earth,
' ibought of Ood-llke mind;
he - ind lags after my going lorth,
Th ghtuing la left behind.
i... darksome depth* of the fathomless mine
y tireless arms doth play,
Vt n.-ret o rucks ne’er saw the sun's decliue
Of tl ilswn of the glorious day;
I iirlo; Artli’s glittering jewels up
Knc die bidden caves below.
Arid I 1k the fountain's granite cup
WJt crystal gush o’srtlow.
J t.low I: bellows, I forge the hteel,
in ail the sbopa of traife;
1 hammer the ore and turn the wheel
Where my arms of strength are made;
1 manage the furnace, the mill, the mint,
I carry, I spin, I weave,
And all my doings I put In print
Ou every .Saturday eve.
I've no muscles to weary, no breath to decay,
No bones to be laid on the shelf.
And soon I Intend you may go ami play,
While 1 manage the world myself.
But harness me down with your Iron bauds,
Be sure of your curb and rein,
For 1 scorn the strength of your puny hands,
As the tempest scorns the chain.
NOT H|N THAT HONG AGAIN.
nv ni'ou r. m'okrmott.
Do not sin); that Hunt; attain.
For It (111* my heart with pain;
1 am hemlint; to the blast,
And it tel a me of the pant,
Of the yearn of long avo,
When my days were youujj aud fair,
And my heart a* light an air
When one feeling filed the hreaat,
And one Image guv.: it real.
In the long, long ago.
Do not ning that eo g again,
I have lived my yearn iu vain.
And my hair in thin and g ay,
Aud I’m pairing fast away;
Ou the dark and downward aUteaine
I'm a wreck of idle dreaina;
And it puta me on the rack
At the weary looking hack,
At the ehh and at the Mow,
In the long, long ago.
Do not aing that aong again.
There’* n tear in lln refrain;
It hrlnga aadly buck the lime
When my manhood felt ita prime;
When the comrades, dear and true,
Closer, warmer, fonder grew
In the hour of frlendHhip'a proof,
When the falae on ex stood aloof.
And tho'r frlendahlp waa hut allow.
In the long, long ago.
I>o not alug that aong again,
It distracts my weary brain.
Ah, too well, alas ! I kuow
Is la time for me to go,
Aud to leave to younger eyea
The mild myat’ry of the akiiiH,
Aud lliia mighty world I tread.
And the grander age ahead.
There’s a mist u|k>ii the river,
And there’a bleakness on the shore.
And Iu dreams I pans forever,
While sad music wafts me o'er.
LETTER FROM NT. MARY’S.
The City and lla ‘Surroundlugs -Hcnllli of
the People—The P. G, In —Tlie JUairi
—ii AwolsJDPvcw# lit. .adSWk
St. Marv’s, Ga m August 14, 1875.
Editor Morning News:
A letter from this little “city by tho
sea” may not be uninteresting to some of
your readers. Though both tho Daily
and Weekly News have subscribers liorc,
I never soo a line from any of our citizons
giving you the news from our city and
county. lam certain that if our leading
men would communicate with initni
grants aud seekers of health through
the columns of your widely circulated
aud deservedly popular paper, the tide
of immigration, to a considerable extent
at least, would bo turnod in this direc
tion. We need only labor and capital.
But how are the advantages of our county
to be kuown by immigrants and capital
ists ? We have no railroad communica
tion with any other town, and our steam
boat communication is such that travel
ing capitalists will never see that this is
the count’v where they cau double their
„t.’4pney.
The city is bountifully situated on the
St. Mary's river, a short distance from its
mouth. The river is the lino betwoen
Florida and Georgia. Foruandiua, in
Florida, is iu sight. The streets of the
town are wide, and are kept in n tolerable
good condition. Our Mayor, Aldermen
and Marshal, are gentlemen who under
stand and attend to their business. Every
th. ng cw-.sidored, there is not a more
orderly town in any State.
There are three churches belonging to
the whites : Presbyterian, Methodistaud
Catholic. Rev. R. R. Baker, Moderator
i of the Presbytery, hold in Blackshear a
Ill* - -'' nontlis since, is pan tor of the Pres-
I,; .erian Church; ltev. L, A. Damey, of
tju South Georgia Auuual Conference, is
|uttor of the Methodist Church. The
Catholic Church has no priest for the
present. The blacks have three churches
also baptist. Northern Methodist and
African Methodist.
We have three schools for whites and
two for blacks.
A graduate of Emory College, and, if I
mistake not, a classmate of Hon. Thos.
II Norwood, has charge of the academy.
Two most excellent, educated ladies, are
the competent teachers of the other two
schools for the whites.
You need not go to Florida nor to the
mountains seekiug health. For health
futneas the city is unsurpassed in this or
•uy other country. If you want to live
until you die with old age, oouic to St.
Mary’s. We suffer from no kind of sick
ness which oanuot be avoided, excepting
“love sickness." No young inau (un
married, of oourse,) coming here need
think he will escape this most pleasant
affection, for “the P. G. in G.” cer
tainly resides in this place. But, alas !
she wears a very heavy gold ring on the
third finger of her left haml It was seen
last evening at a party given by the
young gentlemen of tiie city. It is said
(by the way, old Mrs. liumor lives here,)
that the very expensive ring came from
vour city. As chairman of “a commit
u *■ of one,” I would say to that Savannah
■ i-g man that notwithstanding we have
uu ,' uUow fever here, and do not exjiect
bfjv. it, it is thought best for him to
soarce” as possible in this sec
lion, otherwise he might be led to con
clude 'distance lends enchantment to the
view."
Two or three of the negroes who as
sassinated our noble young citizen, Mr.
Charley :>ang, are confined in the county
jail in this place. Shikmik.
A Wild Human. —The Austin, Texas,
< UUcittM ;t says: A gentleman arrived from
> Marcos yesterday and brought the news
of the capture of a wild boy a few miles
from that place. -The boy was first dis
covered wallowing in a pond of shallow
ater, and when approached be broke
ke a quarter-horse, running about a mile
fore he oould be overtaken by men on
nes. Killing up near, the boy was
—-<ooed, when a fierce contest ensued,
the strange being striking, kicking and
lunging about m the most fearful man
ner, and apparently being frightened
almost to death. Finally he was over
{lowered, tied, and taken to the house of
the man Who first discovered him. His
body was covered with hair about four
inches long, and from size and appear
ance he is supposed to be about twelve
year old. He is unable to talk but pos-
Cjw reasoning power, and now follows
w ‘or Uke a dog.
HON. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS.
Ilia V ImH (a the .Mountains -Medina of
Old Friends— [Jfe of Judae l.tnlon
Stephen* The Power nf the Preao-
Preninture Discussion nf Public tfues
lions— (nudldntrs for tioyrrnor The
I’eonle to Muke tlaclr Own Selection.
[Special Correspondence of the Bond tig News.]
Atlanta, August l*th, 1*75.
It :a not necessary that I should tell
your readers that the recent journeying*!
of the Hon. A. 11. Stephens have created
an unusual flutter in political circles, and j
thnt groat significance has been given his
movements on account of tin rumor that
he was to ho a candidate f..r Gov rnor at
the approaching election. These facts are
already well known to the majority of
newspaper readers throughout the State,
and I will simply add a few words of ei
phination in regard to the whole matter.
HIS ARRIVAL IN ATLANTA.
Mr. Stephens arrived here from Ma
rietta in company with Colonel J. D.
Waddell, on the noon train, and imme
diately after dinner I visited him at the
residence of his nephew, John A.
Stephens, Esq., where I was joined by
several newspaper reporters and distin
guished gentlemen, all of whom seemed
to be here for the same purpose—to
ascertain whether or not Mr. S. was a
candidate for Governor. To us of the
press he very pleasantly remarked that he
waa willing to talk with us, as private
gentlemen, on any subject, but he had an
established rule against being profession
ally “interviewed” for publication. Of
course this put us in the position of the
rest of the party present, and for two
hours we sat and listened to the “Sage
of Liberty Hall” as he discussed pubiic
and private matters in a social and
friendly manner.
OBJECT OK HIS RECENT TRAVELS.
Finding himself in excellent health at
the commencement of the warm weather,
Mr. 8. concluded to carry out it long
cherished purpose to visit some of the
old and revered friends of ante helium
• lavs, and with this object in view went
to Southwestern Georgia, Jand later to
Cherokee Georgia. At Gedartown many
old associates from Greene county are
located, and Mr. Stevens was at this place
when the Charleston Convention assem
bled. His recollections of that period
are, therefore, quite vivid, as he was then
in the midst of a community “ red hot ”
for secession. After a lapse of nearly
fifteen years he revisits those scenes,
and mingles again with the loved and fa
miliar friends of his boyhood. There,
too, he met some of his earliest clients,
and talked over once more the profes
sional labors of his early mauhood. To
this was added a sacred duty—the exami
nation and revision of the manuscript of
the life of Linton Stephens, recently pre
pared by Col. J. D. Waddell, and which
is now nearly ready for the press. These
are the plain, unvarnished facts connected
with the late jourttoyings of “ Little
Aleck.”
THE POWER OF THE PRESS UNLIMITED.
Mr. Stephens talked freely to us in re
gard to tho third term, currency question,
force bill, civil rights bill, Louisiana
matters and “ Old Bill Allen,” and in
doing so, referred to the fact that certain
Northern newspaper men with whom he
had once conversed, as he was then talk
ing with us, in a friendly and frank
manner, had taken advantage of his
kindness and not only published his con
vernation, but in many respects had mis
represented his views. “There is no
human power,” remarked Mr. S., “equal
to that of the press of the country.”
Much of its power, however,he thinks, is
wasted by a premature discussion of
public questions and the claims of candi
dates to public confidence and support. A
wise general reserves the full strength of
his army for the actual conflict, and seldom
wastes it in efforts of a doubtful charac
ter, for the more purpose of frightening
tho enemy. I have long hold to this
opinion, and as a journalist of twenty
years’ experience l am fully convinced
that much of the disaster which has over
tnkon the Democratic and Conservative
party has been owing to a too early
and general discussion of public meas
ures and public men. When the real
issue is made, in most ease/s, the enemy
JJHness of our cause has been laid open
Tfor months or years, and the plan of
operation fully understood. In politics,
as in war, the less the opposing forces
kuow of our plans and purposes, except
at the last moment, tho better for our
cause and the greater the chance of sue
cuss on our part.
THE CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR.
It would bo quite impossible in a letter
of this chiirncti r Iu discuss the question
of who is to bo the next Chief Magistrate
of this Statu, as, just now, the question is
sadly befogged with doubts aud difficul
ties of a too serious character to lie blown
away with a breath. The friends of Mr.
Stephens are laboring for bis election
with great confidence, notwithstanding
what I have written above; nor are they
laboring iu vain. Other candidates may
well tremble. And a lively contest may
be expected, if. when the proper time
arrives, Mr. Stephens is fiunlly pressed
into tho field. The mere mention of his
name in connection with the office has
developed greater strength than ho was
credited with possessing. It is also a
fact, and one that becomes daily
more apparent, that Governor Smith,
if called out in the proper man
ner, mil be a candidate. These, then,
are the two things to be considered be
fore the cases’ of Alfred, Thomas and
John can be considered. Among the
Grangers, General Alfred H. Colquitt aud
Colonel Thomas H. Hardeman, Jr., will
divide the support of the Order, (of
course in an individual manner, aud not
as Patrons,) aud make a close fight
throughout the entire Slate. Ex-Mayor
John H. James I should not mention as
a probable candidate were it not for his
prominent connection with a powerful
religious denomination, and his desire to
spend, m a legitimate way, a small for
tune to elevate himself to the Chief Mag
istracy of the State. Of his success I
have the gravest doubts, although I
regard him as au excellent Christian
gentleman and a public-spirited citizen.
Looking over the field very carofully, and
comparing the opiuious which I have
gathered after much effort, I am com
pelled to give the field to Hardeman and
Colquitt, with the chances iu favor of the
former; provided , however, that Smith
and Stephens do not come in ou the
home stretch. They will not enter the
race on the first or second quarter, but I
I very much fear that on the third
quarter or home-stretch one or
both of these gentlemen will be
trotted on the track, groomed, trained
and fresh for a contest for the final vic
tory. As the matter now stands—and it
will probably remain so for a time—both
Gov. Smith and Mr. Stephens are silent
as to their future action in the race; but
they do affirm that they are not note can
didates. Of one thing I am certain—
speaking from a point of wide aud careful
observation—the next Governor of
Georgia will not bo solf selected, nor
tho pet of any ring, class of citizens,
or religious denomination, but the
free, sjsmtantons choice of the great
nuns of the people of Georgia. Mark
THIS PREDICTION WELL.
Me Judice.
Another Clergyman “ Slips His
Cablf.. ” — Says the Chicago Times: Anoth
er sensitive clergyman has turned up.
Ho is tho Rev. A. R. Doolittle, of Elroy’,
Wisconsin, aud he is charged with grave
immoralities in connection with a female
member of his household. He had an
examination before a Justice, pleaded
guilty and was held under bail. He was
ou bis way to the county seat in charge
of a Sheriff when a newsboy rushed into
the station with the cry, “Full accounts
of the Elroy scandal!” The Rev. Mr.
Doolittle became quite faint. “My God!”
he exclaimed, “My sister-in-law is com
ing iu on the train, and when she sees
this newspaper 1 shall be afraid to meet
her. Aud they will know all about it iu
New York and everywhere else. Sheriff,
take me away!” The sensitive clergyman
was removed to a more secluded place.
This case affords another proof that the
practice of printing clerical scandals in
newspapers is pernicious. This tender
hearted man might have been spared a
great deal of humiliation if the news
papers hadn’t exposed him.
Au employe of a large establishment
in W’i lining ton, N. C., remained over his
vacation at a summer resort, and was
telegraphed for to return or lose his place.
“Don’t wan’t the place; have a $200,000
girl in love with me,” was the answer.
But he came back in a week and took a
place at S4O per month.
LETTER FROM EATONTON.
“ Thr War We 1,1 ve Xw"- ! h4HIu mf
the Crops Is Pstaso-Aoothor Toaols
with the Type#—A I .eel* re lor the latei
llrnt Com pool! or.
[Njx-ciAl Correspondence of the Morning News.)
Eatonton. August 16th, 1875.
THE ROAD WE ABE TRAVELING.
The cry comes up from nearly all over
the United States, that most people are
living beyond their means. In the New
York papers especially do we see com
plaints on this score. It is certainly true
that we, of this part of the world, as a
community, there being exceptions, of
cout •. are spending more money than we
make. Those who are fortunate enough
to have saved a little property out of the
wrecks of their estates since the war, get
rid of the income every year, and en
croach a little on the principal. The
consequence is that we are gradually, but
surely, traveling that facilis descerwu
arrni, which has been so feli
citously translated the “ road to
bell, down hill all the way.” (I quote
this about as often as Hon. Robert
Toornbs used to quote “I would not flat
ter Neptune,”etc., or Hon. A. H. Stephens,
“Lay on Macduff,” etc.; but it is so ap
posite I cannot keep it off the tip of my
pen.) You may talk about the landed
aristocracy of slavery days—of the un
equaled distribution of property under
that regime ; but it will pale into utter
insignificance before the disproportion
that will exist in this country within the
next ten or twenty years, unless there
shall lie a radical chagne in our manner of
life.
Why, there are men who had sev
eral thousand dollars ready money,
at a time when the large ma -
jority of our citizens could
scarcely muster funds enough to
buy “store” hats for themselves, and cali
co dresses for their wives, who have just
frittered it away, until they cannot show
a cent of it. Others, again, commenced
soon after the surrender, some flat
footed, others with ten or twenty dollars,
and to-day they are, according to our
standard, wealthy. Some trading men
have titles to thousands and thousands of
acres of land, and after a while they will
own nearly all of it and the rest of us
will be their tenants at will. Scarcely a
family in this section can be found which,
if it had exercised even moderate econo
my, from 1865 to this time, could not now
be comfortable. But, if necessary, we
should exercise rigid economy. As it is,
we are very uncomfortable. However,
we are too high-bred; too aristocratic; too
chivalrous, to be frugal. Look at the
French people. With all their reputed
frivolity and vanity, and with all their
pride of blood, you will find compara
tively few of them, even among the no
bility, who will not live within their
means, however little that may be—
whether five noun or five franc* a day—-
and most ol them will manage to lay up
a little something for a rainy day, if it be
physically possible to do so.
FODDER PULLING, COTTON, WEATHER, ETC.
A great many people began to strip the
blades from the corn stalks one week ago
to-day. They are having a bad time of
it. liain nearly every day in some places,
and about every other day in most locali
ties, renders it well nigh impossible to
save any first-rate fodder. When it is
not raining, it is generally cloudy, and is
likely to continue so during the season
for saving our chief forage crop. A good
deal of the fodder dried up entirely, so
as to be utterly worthless, during the
drought, and now, while it is
raining, a good deal of the rest
is rotting on the stalk or spoil
ing after being pulled. This is a
very serious disaster, coming, as it does,
on tho heel of others. As to cotton, I
shall not at present venture an estimate,
knowing, as I do, that it is more subject
to sudden and unexpected vicissitudes
than any crop with which I am ac
quainted. This much is certain, though,
while there are some plantations that cau
show good crops, the most of them
cannot possibly make the number of bales
that they once promised. Some fields
are still fruiting, others are past redemp
tion. I know one field that was, at first,
exceedingly promising, which, now, is
more nearly in utter failure than any I
ever saw. The'forius and bolls have dried
up, rusted up, burnt up, till, I verily be
liovo, the whole crop will not be over
fifty pounds seed cotton per acre. And,
up to Ist July, the whole crop of this
section—corn, cotton and all —was so full
of promise as to rejoice the hearts of the
whole community. But, alas! for the
disappointments to which mortals are
subject, from tho cradle to the grave !
AMONG MY OLD FRIENDS, THE TYPES —A
CHRONIC QUARREL.
Well, in the first place, O companions
of my youth, and friends of my riper
years, you put a period where I had an
interrogation point. I wrote “Water
melons lower; or money higher ?" I in
tended to ask a question; but, as you
kuow better what I wanted than I did
myself, you substituted a period, as
already stated, for my poor, defenceless
interrogation point. Secondly: I wrote
“Adams’s store,” but you had it “Adam’s
store.” I have explained to you before,
my peculiar ideas on the formation of
the possessive case—peculiar, though,
I believe, to every one who has
ever written a treatise on the gram
mar of the English language—and
I have begged you, with tears in my eyes,
to indulge me in my whims, although
you know so much better than Murray,
Smith, Quackenboss, Harvey, Holmes,
Parker aud the rest; but ye will not.
However, I will, once more, recite the
rule as laid down by Lindley Murray, and
as agreed to by all those who have fol
losved him. Here is before me his com
plete works, in one volume—that is, in
cluding all that ho wrote on this subject
being a thousand pages. By the way,
whoever will give this book a careful
perusal will be surprised to find how
superfluos, for the advanced scholar, is
nearly every thing that has been written
since the death of Murray, on the subject
of which he treats. I am speak
ing now to young writers not
those of older experience. The
rule, p. 41, is; ' “The possessive case
expresses the relation of property or pos
session ; and has an apostrophe, with the
letter s coming after it.” ** *. “When
the plural ends in s the others is omitted,
but the apostrophe is retained.”* * *
“Sometimes, also, when the singubwr ends
in aa, the apostrophic < is not added." On
page 164, other exceptions to the general
rule for forming the singular possessive
are given; as when it ends in ee, eto.,
etc. The fact is, euphony has more to
do with it than anything else. I will il
lustrate by examples. “Adams’s store”—
pronounced “Adamses store”—sounds
better, to my ear, than !‘Adams’
store.” “Moses'slaw” —pronounced “Mo
seses”—would be horrible; therefore,
I would, in this case, contrary to the
strict rule, write “Moses’ law.”
Again, “Felix’s wife” —pronounced Fe
lixes—has a more pleasant sound than
“Felix’ wife,” so, here I would comply
with the general rule. I leave the sub
ject. with the remark that I shall charge
Mr. Estill a large fee for these hmts that
are destined to be so well heeded by his
types, and that will teach them to set up
MS. as they ought.
I must not forget, though, that they
spoke of a l/u'/i-lipped nigger, where I
wrote tAirA-lipped; diaskalos for didatkalos
—they had this word right in one place,
wrong in another —“engulyied,' for en
gulfed—thought they would get that
wrong when I wrote it. They had mornin’
for mornin. There was no use for the
apostrophe, as I was writing the negro
dialect, and I consider It folly to use it&l
ics or apostrophes, or anything of the sort,
inimitating theirlingo. Spetlphonefcically
according to the darkey pronunciation,
and nothing more is required. This re
minds me that one of the editors of the
News once said it is rare to find a man
who cau write the nigger language. It
must be recollected that this dialect is
very different on the seaboard from what
it is in the up-country —a fact with which
no one is better acquainted than the junior
editor of tho News. What I set out to
say, though, is this: It is more difficult
to find a printer who will set up the MS.
as it is written than to find a correspond
ent who can write the negro dialect cor
rectly. K.
Drowned Among His Wheat.—A
farmer of Bluff ton, Ind., named John
Thomas, in attempting to save his wheat
from being swept away by the flood on
Tuesday overturned his boat and was
drowned. His son was rescued in an ex
hausted condition. Another man. namal
D. Hilbert, is supposed to have been
drowned, as his boat was discovered bot
tom side up.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Tfte Treasury Hebbery—Hew Other*
Make Meaey—The Rich Radlrals ef
W'a#hlajn#D—A Few Nice Hevidence#—
A Flerlda Fracas—Oar N alien at Nur
sery—The New Telegraph—VUllsrs. Ac.,
Ac.
(Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Washington, D. C., August 14th, 1875.
the treasury robbery
is the only subject of conversation here
now. and as the three young men from
Spinner’s county have all displayed skill
in getting away with funds, an opportu
nity will be afforded the horde of hungry
hoosiers whom New has put in to take
chances also. The small sums s \en
from the cash room are only drops in the
bucket of the amount stolon by Grant s
friends, but the detectives never get on
the track of these fellows. One of the
best stealing places for a single individ
ual in this town is the ollice of public
buildings and grouudx, now in charge of
GEN. BABCOCK.
This position controls all improvements
made on the public grounds, ou the eapi
tol and White House, and the aqueduct
works. The latter has been a great source
of profit to the lucky ones lately. An in
vestigation will prove that the Washing
ton water works have cost fat more than
the great Croton works. Every year
since 1861 several hundred thousand have
been appropriated for it, and yet it is not
completed, although it was considered as
nearly finished in Pierce’s administration.
The bridge over Cabin John creek, ten
miles from here, is the largest single span
stone bridge in the world, a beautiful
piece of masonry, erected under the di
rection of Jefferson Davis while
Secretary of War. It bore an
inscription upon it to that effect,
whioh Meigs, the Quartermaster-Gene
ral, in a spirit of narrow-minded
meanness had cut out during the war,
thinking that by so doing he could oblit
erate Davis from history. The name of
Jefferson Davis will live long after Meigs
will be forgotten, notwithstanding that
Grant has given him notoriety by reliev
ing him from the duties of his office for
inoompetency, and placed General Ingalls
in the position. Babcock’s predecessor
was Major Michler of the engineers, who,
in four years, out of a sal try of $3,000 per
annum, managed to build some fiue blocks
of residences, of which “Michler Row"
stands as the finest. Babcock relieved
him in 1873, and out of the same salary
has built “Babcock’s Itow” of elegant
mansions on “G” street west, worth per
haps $150,000.
DEFAULTERS AND SHARKS
seem to rule here under this administra
tion. If you are walking near the Patent
Office, on “G” street, you will see a fiue
block of five story houses with “Wright’s
Law Buildings” inscribed upon them. You
ask who built them, and the Washingto
nians will look at you surprised and ask,
“Is it possible that you never heard of
Judge Wright, of Indian fraud notoriety?”
He built that row. You walk out “K”
street and an elegant mansion near 11th
street attracts you. The fountains are
scattering the spray over the flowers, and
birds in gilt cages are singing in every
window. That was erected by ,Charley
Kloman, who made a fortune selling
whiskey during the war. You proceed on
to near the Arlington, and a beautiful
row ou Vermont Avenue attracts you.
The person tells you that people say that
Hodge, the paymaster who defaulted for
$400,000 a couple of years ago, has been
building them since the President par
doned him. You proceed up a piece,
and turning into “K” street, that large
mansion on the right was built by Nichol
son, who has made a fortune in seal fur
during the past few years. Just
beyond you are the magnificent houses
built by Boss Shepherd and the ring, and
in front of you out Connecticut avenue is
Castle Stewart, built from the proceeds of
the “Little Emma Mine” swindle. lie
turning to ‘ ‘I” street, on one corner of
Nineteenth is Chamberlain's gambling
palace, and on the opposite corner Cres
well’s house. Creswell is making a for
tune hand over head. Then in other
quartersof thecity are Butler’s, Spencer’s,
Morrill’s, Chandler’s, and the houses of
others of that ilk—successful lobbyists
and army contractors—successful mail
contractors, like Sawyer, all rich from
favor and through influence.
A FLORIDA FRACAS.
Passing down street a couple of days
ago I saw a couple of men at high words;
one of them was in a buggy, aud was
Furman, of Florida. The other, ou foot,
was Tom Cowart, also claiming Florida
as his home. Cowart wautod Furman to
come out aud fight him like a man, but
Purman couldn’t see it in those lamps.
The difficulty, I learn, was this: Cowart
claims that Blumeuthal, Collector at
Cedar Keys, (a youth well kuowu iu
Savannah,) owes him several hundred
dollars, and be was endeavoring to get
the Treasury Department to make Blurney
pay him or put him out. Purman being
a friend of Blumey’s learned of this, aud
knowing that Cowart was getting four
dollars a day at painting in the Treasury,
went up and had Cowart removed. This
led to the words.
THE AGRICULTURAL BUREAU.
I paid a visit to this useless appendage
to the government a few days ago, and
took a glimpse at the old fossill, Fred
Walts, of Pennsylvania, who is Commis
sioner. He has all bis relatives located
here among the garden seeds, and the
rest of the force are Pennsylvania politi
cal bummers. The building is a very
pretty one, and is divided into seed
rooms, Walts’ sleeping apartments and
offices, and up stairs is the exhibition hall,
containing a lot of dirty wax casts of
vegetables, principally pumpkins, apiece
of one of the California big trees, two
dirty negroes as attendants, a long-nosed
yankee girl impaling bugs and butterflies
on a pin, and a graduate of the Chester
(Pennsylvania) Military College stinking
the room up with a kerosene lamp and
trying to pass himself off as a chemist,
for as such they pay him. Next to the
large building is the greenhouse, presided
over by the head-centre of the Grangers,
Colonel Saunders. His boquet factory is
run in the interest of members of Con
gress and government officials. A high
toned barkeeper d'ol here a short time
ago and a Post Office clerk got an order
on the Agricultural Department for flow
ers with which the coffin of the defunct
gin-alinger was covered.
A NEW TELEGRAPH.
Anew telegraph line has been put up
in the city, and all who will pay can have
a station dial put up in their houses. Mes
senger boys are employed in connection
with it and it seems to work well. One
turn of the hand on the dial brings a boy
to your bouse to run errands; two turns
brings a policeman ; three turns, the fire
department; four turns, a doctor; five
turns, perhaps a preacher, and so on.
There is one thing certain, no one cares
about turning up their creditors,especially
in these hard times, and in a city where
the dog-catcher has opened a collection
office and has the largest run of custom.
This telegraph system will work well here,
where there is such distances between
points, and it is already paying, I under
stand.
VISITORS.
At Willard's are registered : A. Seers,
Savannah; W. J. Walker, Charleston;
Mrs. S. J. Springs, Miss Bessie Springs,
G. J. Patterson, Miss Sue Hemphill and
Miss M. M. Dowell, of South Carolina,
and T. A. Thurston, of Charleston. At
the Metropolitan, W. G. Whelden and J.
F. Robertson, of South Carolina; and at
the Imperial, L. E. Johnson, of South
Carolina. Georgians seem scarce. Gen.
Frank Armstrong, late Confederate States
Army, is here, just from Texas and
Arkansas, where he has been in business
for several years past. He tells of the
wonderful growth of Northwestern Texas,
and says now is the time for young men
to go West and grow up with the coun
try. He says the prospects for crops are
very fine in that region, and that Texas
has been steadily improving since she
shook off the Radical yoke. If Arkansas
does the same she will also go steadily
ahead. Cyclops.
Victims of Morphine. —Mrs. Jane C.
Yeatoa, of Aina, Me., aged eighty-eight,
died on Saturday from an overdose of
morphine, left through the error of a
physician, who had supposed he had left
a “foaming draught powder.” Mrs.
Ballard, the nurse, found it would not
foam, and thinking something was wrong
tasted the mixture, from the effects of
which she was, with great difficulty,
saved through the energy of physicians
and neighbors, who worked on her all !
Saturday night! Every effort waa made
without avail to arouse Mrs. Yeatoa from ]
her lethargy. j
Gt. Smith’s Address.
The following speech of Gov. Smith is
one of the best we have ever read from
him. It waa made before the State Agri
cultural Society at Dalton :
Gen. Colquitt introduced Gov. Smith
to the Convention, the members rising in
a body to receive him.
Gov. Smith stated that it was not his
purpose to make a speech : that we were
too prone to talk instead of acting. So
far as he was able to judge from the re
ports of the convention, the people were
on the liue of policy advocated in his
speech at Athens. The Agriculturists
are the people. In your hands is the des
tiny of the State. You can’t escape from
the responsibility if you desired to.
The progress of the country depends
upon you. If Georgia does not take the
positiou God intended she should it is
you: fault. The triumph of every other
industry is dependent upon you. In
your hands lies the elevation of the
State. How is the State to be elevated ?
So me say by diversified industry. That
is true. But all these industries are
based on you at last Unless you prosper
there will be no means to prosecute the
others.
The great enemy of progress is igno
rance. The people are always right.
Every pulsation of the public heart is in
the interest of public virtue. How to re
move ignorance, you ask. I respond :
EDUCATE THE PEOPLE.
There are some measures established
during my administration that nothing
can deprive me of the honor. They are
the settled policy of the government.
One measure is our
SYSTEM OF PUBLIC EDUCATION,
which I hope to see perfected soon. I
do not approve of it as a whole. I
have never concealed anything I thought
from the people. I have no secrets. Do
you know what I think of the system ?
I will tell you. I think that from five to
ten normal schools should be established
in the State to make
EDUCATION FREE
indeed. I would give $5,000 per annum
to each school.
We have commenced at the wrong end
to educate our people. Seventy-five
cents don’t educate anybody. It only
gives enough to make them foolish.
Then commence at the head. When
Aaron was consecrated the oil was poured
on his head, and ran down his beard to
tho hem of his garment. Do not anoint
the feet, for the anointing oil never
ascends. Establish
HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS,
where you can educate men and send
them out to enlighten the world. Put
six educated men, yea, only two, in the
midst of darkness and ignorance and
they will dispel them- Two or three
years ago the North Georgia Agricultural
College, at Dahlonega, was started with
au endowment of only $2,500. We can’t
begin to enumerate its advantages. In
my opinion it has done more good than
a dozen institutions in the State. We
need three or four normal schools in
Southwest Georgia and in Middle and
North Georgia.
I was glad to see the deputation of
gentlemen from England here. I want
direct trade and all its blessings.
When we are independent we will get
direct trade and immigration. Who
hunts a poor man ? The only practical
way to achieve independence is by build
ing up our industries. To encourage
immigration we must make every man
feel that his person aud property are se
cure and the law supreme. We can’t
develop our own resources by getting in
convention and simply talking about
them. It requires acts. Tfiis rests upon
you. We have people enough.
There are 1,400,000 people iu the State.
If wo do our duty immigration will come.
When we show them that we are inde
pendent of them they will come. When
we show them we are able to do without
them they will begin to cultivate us.
There is room enough. If they don’t
want to come wit can do without them
and manage without them. [ Applause.]
I was glad to sec- that you passed reso
lutions indorsing the Centennial. J re
vere the principles of 1776. Mr. Coifcdiji
of Philadelphia, who is Southern in TEs
feelings, told me he was glad to sefyAhe
South getting back to her duty. A. re
sponded that “it was our day and our
principles. Hurrah for the Fourth of
July!” I expect, Deo volente , to be at
the Centennial. The only great good I
see in it is giving the people of the North
and South an opportunity to mix aud
mingle with each other. The masses of
the North don’t know whether we are
quadrupeds or bipeis. They think we
have a negro for breakfast every morn
ing. They were astonished when I was
there to hear me utter the language of a
human being. We differ as to policy, yet
all agree that right is right aud wrong is
wrong.
The English deputation told ifie that
they had closely investigated matters,
and Georgia was ahead of her sister
Southern States. If we get along to suit
ourselves why cart we for praise abroad ?
Who ever knew poor man to have a
large circle of friends? Let each man
have his barn and store house full, and
friends will surround them.
THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
I am pleased to see your appreciation
of the labors of the State Geologist; upon
the survey depends a knowledge of our
resources. Men have walked all their
lives over hidden wealth, without know
ing it. I want the time to come when at
the capital the productions and minerals
of every county and of each district in
the county will te on exhibition at the
capitol. The people of Georgia are the
most independent people in the world if
they knew their resources. Georgia isau
empire in her productions, in her terri
tory, and resources. She raises the
products of the torrid and temperate
zones, and is capable of supporting a
population of
TWO HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE.
Much depends upon perfecting this
survey. The
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
is another beneficial institution. The
people want light, and hence require a
department under the regulations of law,
responsible for their acts, and supported.
It is the duty of the Commissioner to dis
close all the facts to the people. The
ravages of the worm for a single season
on the fruit crop will pay half of the
national debt.
It is the duty of the agriculturists to
sustain these departments.
KEEP VP THE ASSOCIATION.
It is said that we are now foremost
among the Southern States I add,
among the Northern States. We are not
as rich because we have not stolen. We
have retained our integrity and our un
failing devotion to liberty.
Keep up your association. Hon. Mr.
Shorter, of Alabama, told me he was
proud of old Georgia, his native State,
and held her up as a perpetual example
to the people of Alabama, his adopted
State. Look at our sister States. Many
are oppressed with debt. How is it with
Georgia ? I attribute her freedom from
these evils to the influence of these asso
ciations. The 7 per cent, bonds bring in
New York 100 cents in the dollar, in a
hostile market; and, as Gen. Toombs
would say, “hostile country.” Two
million five hundred thousand dollars of
our bonds have been bought recently by
one citizen in New York.
We don’t ask any odds, only to be let
alone. I expect to retire at the end of
my official career, and if I can succeed in
doing right to its close I will be satisfied.
I have been honored beyond my deserts.
The glory of my life is that my people
have been reconstructed in fact and deed,
and in reconstructing themselves have
placed themselves upon a platform of
equality and independence.
During the delivery of this address the
Governor was frequently interrupted by
hearty and continuous applause. The
convention was more than pleased with it.
Col. J. L. Sweat offered a resolution of
thanks to Governor Smith for his able
address, and requested a copy "for .publi
cation in the proceedings, which 'was
unanimously adopted.
A circular having been sent to General
Fitz Lee, of Virginia, soliciting his in
dorsement of a movement in favor of
Hon. N. P. Banks, of Massachusetts, for
President, and Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, of
Mississippi, for Vice-President, in the
next coming Presidential campaign, the
General has written a reply in which be,
says: “I feel it my duty to say, Um
should those gentlemen be the
of the National Democratic Conl?entj on
for the high offices you desire fsem to fill,
it will give me pleasure UggKte for them,
and to aid in an humuKray to secure
their election.”
Horrible Situation—A Man Wedged in
a Tunnel for Six Honrs.
Mention was made the other day of the
accident at Big Bend Tunnel, on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, by which
the engineer, Mr. John Quincy Adams
Wilkins formerly of this city, was in
jured. The “Big Bend” is what is known
in railroad parlance as a “dirt tunnel,”
being very liable to cave in, and therefore
the engineers are more careful to look out
for “danger ahead” in passing through
them. It was the exercise of this care
that probably saved an immense
loss of life, as the train had
been brought down to a very slow
rate of speed on approaching the
tunnel. It seems that an end of one of
the large timbers supporting the roof
had become detached and fallen to the
track, a few feet within the tunnel, and
the pilot of the engine striking it, the
jar loosened the other timbers and a
large quantity of earth and stones, and
the whole mass came tumbling down
upon the locomotive, breaking it to
pieces. The fireman, who was standing
close to Mr. Wilkins, was mashed to a
jelly and could not have lived
a moment, while Mr. Wilkins was
thrown forward in a standing position,
with his throat across the reverse bar,
and a large timber fell across the back
of his neck, rendering it impossible to
move. He had a quid of tobacco in his
month at the time, and so tightly was he
caught that he could not expectorate,
and could only swallow with difficulty ;
indeed, he could scarcely raise his voice
above a whisper. There he remained for
six hours in the pitchy darkness, while
every second or two small pieces of dirt
and gravel from the roof would fall down
by Jbfis side, conveying the impression
momentarily that another mass was about
to fall and crush him completely. All the
time the shouts of those outside could be
heard, as with shovel and axe they forced
their way to his rescue, which, however,
seemed to him beyond all hope. When
they finally reached him he was more
dead than alive, and being completely ex
hausted, lost consciousness in a swoon
which lasted several hours. His broken
arm set, and he was brought to his home
at Orange C. H., where he now is, and
improving very fast. Mr. W. describes
his sufferings during the six hours he was
in the tunnel as horrible beyond mea
sure, and says that to survive through
another such ordeal were impossible. As
the train was going so slowly when the
accident occurred, the cars were not dam
aged at all, and the passengers only ex
perienced a slight shock. — Alex. (Fa.)
Sentinel , V,Wi.
Senator Booth on the Stump.
Senator Booth, of California, made his
opening speech in the campaign in that
State recently in San Francisco, before an
immense audience. After a long discus
sion of local issues, he closed with this
eloquent allusion to national questions:
“The wound heals slowly that is often
chafed. That would be a divine moment
in our history which would strike down
every party tie and party name which
perpetuates a war memory, and bring the
people together who are willing to forget
in a solid and impenetrable phalanx.
’The American people was the real hero
of the war,’ and must also be the apostle
of peace and reunion. Why should they
not come together ? Sumner would re
move the names of battles from flags
because they were remembrances of
civil war—why can we not take the names
from our political banners, which are also
reminders! There comes a time when
the instinct of sentiment is a truer guide
than cold philosophy or calculating pru
dence. But they tell us a great many
rebel Generals have been elected to the
next Congress. Why should they not be?
When the government amnestied them,
did it mean to say, “We restore your
rights, but you shall never enjoy them ?”
When they take their seats in Congress,
it will be with an oath to support the
Constitution of the United States. I do
not believe that the men who are willing
to die for their convictions will be the
most ready to perjure themselves for
place. Parties are but necessary evils.
There are great moments in a nation’s
life when the times should rise above
them. Why may not the true spirit of
the people have sway ? This is the cen
tennial year. Let it be a year of jubilee.
Before us is a grand outlook of history.
Who shall estimate the power and popu
lation of this country at the close of the
century now dawning, if we, the people,
are equal to the divine opportunity ? Who
knows what trials may await us, what
temptations may beset? Let us challenge
destiny as one people. Let us have the
only union which can be permanent—a
union of hearts. Let the true feeling of
the hour find genuine expression unre
strained and reconstruction will come —
not by legal enactment, not by force bills
or writs of law, but in the hearts of the
people, like the dawning of day, like the
breath of the morning, like the Spirit of
the Lord.”
The Realistic Indian Drama.
The Hayden surveying party to the
Bad lands lately met Oregon Bill (W. J.
Speck), no relation to Buffalo Bill (W.
Cody.) The two Bills are, however,
enough alike to be twin brothers. Oregon
Bill told one of the party, among other
backwoods talk, about his first ex
perience with an Indian show at Leaven -
worth City some years ago. The au
dience upon that occasion got scared
and all cleared out of the house and ran
home, feeling for their top hair. It is
probably well they did if Oregon Bill’s
story is to be relied on. He says:
“We had had no rehearsal, and when the
hour arrived we knew no more what the
Indians would do than the audience. But
I went behind the scenes and told them
to go out and do their best. At the given
signal they went hooting and yelling on
the stage, and commenced a war dance.
They had three fresh scalps, which they
had captured from another tribe a few
days before, and as they progressed in
the dance and grew excited they flourish
ed their temakawks and knives, and flung
the scalps into the air, cutting at them
with their weapons as they descended, and
licking them with their tongues whenever
they could get them in their hands. At
length they got worked up to such
a pitch of excitement that, forgetting for
the time where they were, they leaped
clear over the orchestra and ran yelling
and whooping up and down the aisles.
The audience were so frightened that
most of them ran out of the house, and
we were rather scared ourselves, as we
did not know how the thing would end.
Two of us ran out on the stage and
shouted and gesticulated until we were
tired, without any effect, when one of
the squaws came out and told us to let
them have it out or they might do some
damage. This was the last night we gave
a performance without a rehearsal, for
the Indians told us they thought they
were to do just as they had done.”
That must have been a very lively and
life-like Indian performance. It was
worth the money to get away from it.
Oregon Bill is to exhibit a party of Kaw
Indians at the Philadelphia Centennial.
Some of the Europeans to be present,
would be infinitely amused with another
just such a scene as that at Leavenworth.
— St. Loui* liepubliean.
What Gov. Allen, of Ohio, Thinks of
the Outlook.
‘ ‘Beat them ? certainly we will beat
them, sir," is a favorite expression of the
new candidate for Presidential honors
when asked about his chances for suc
cess in the Gubernatorial contest. “Why,
sir, this is the people’s fight against the
money power, and the majority on the
people’s side will not be counted by the
single thousands, sir.” But the financial
question is the Governors hobby. In
and out of season he talks finance.
“This financial question is the great one
in this contest,’’ says he, “and it’s
nonsense to talk of its being a minor issue.
might as well talk of destroying all
outjrailroads and canals and returning to
theSjJd-fashioned stage-roads for our
only of intercourse in a moment
as to talk* °* resaßa i n g specie payments
w -thout the country. It’s a more
honest p of the government
and g eater confidence in its willingness
and Ability to pay that we want, and then
i£ 'don’t make a bit of difference
'whether we have any more specie than is
necessary for foreign exchange.”
“Upon the financial plank of the Demo
cratic platform,” says the Governor, “our
fight must be made this fall. There are
no questions at issue that approach it in
dignity or importance, and, Bir, it’s the
beginning of a great national struggle
upon the same question which must be
made nest year.
CITY AFFAIRS.
A KOI.II BIJRULAR.
He Hoba Eleven sleeping Men ef $250
and Levants.
Messrs. Elarbee <fc Sutton keep a gro
cery and provision store on the corner of
Zubly and Laurel streets, to which is
attached a wagon yard where countrymen
leave their teams over night when they
are in town. The teamsters sleep in the
dwelling and outbuildings occupied by
Mr. E. B. Sutton, adjoning the wagon
yard on the west, and 1 routing on Zubly
street. On Wednesday night there were
quite a number of them at the house,
eleven of whom slept in the base
ment and back piazza, while others
occupied the second story of the
outbuilding. Some of them retired
early, while others were up from
time to time as late as twelve o’clock,
after which time nothing was known
until about three o'clock yesterday morn
ing, when Mr. Sutton was aroused and
informed that robbers liad been in the
house. Upon examination and inquiry,
it was ascertained that all of the eleven
who occupied the basement and back
piazza had been robbed of their money.
Some had their pants pockets cut. and
others their vest pockets, the robber or
robbers being afraid of awakening the
slumbering victims by extracting the
oontents in a neat manner. The total
amount lost foots up some two hun
dred dollars. One man alone, Mr. W. W.
Bird, of Bulloch county, lost about one
hundred and seventy-five dollars. Mr.
Bird during the day was around the
market, and was seen by a policeman to
pull out a large roll of money, and was
warned by him to keep it in his pocket
as there were a number of sharpers
around town and he would be likely to
lose it if he exposed it to view too often.
It is thought that the robbery was com
mitted by a regular professional, as no
one else would have operated in the
same way. During the early part of
the evening one of the men was
sitting at the window in the basement
counting his money, when some strange
man came along and asked if that was
the wagon-yard, to which answer was
made, “yes,” but the party passed on
without coming in. Some of the men
seemed to suspect the colored man who
was in tbe employ of Messrs. Elarbee &
Sutton, and he was arrested by officer
Morgan on a warrant issued by Magistrate
Patterson. Messrs. E. Jt S. say this man
has been in their employ for more than a
year past and they have never had cause
to suspect him of stealing anything, and
several of the men state they have no
idea that he stole the money. In the
morning a board was found to have been
taken from the fence of the yard, and it
is thought possible that the thief may
have entered in that way, or that lie may
have entered early in the evening and se
reted himself in some of the numerous
stalls.
TVBEK ISLAND.
A Fine Hotel mid Tramway to be Built at
Once.
A meeting of the stockholders in the
hotel and tramway at Tybeo Island, with
the lot-owners and others interested in
the development of this charming resort,
was held at the office of Mr. Ed. F. Neuf
ville Thursday afternoon at five o’clock.
Col. John Screven was called to the
chair, and Mr. Neufville was requested
to act as Secretary.
After a full and free discussion of the
objects desired, it was decided to com
mence the building of the tramway from
the wharf to the beach, at the south end,
at once. The route has been surveyed,
and the distance is said to be about a
mile and three-quarters, and it is antici
pated that the work can be done in a
short time.
We understand that the necessary
amount of stock for building both the
hotel and tramway has been subscribed,
and there is nothing now to delay the
commencement of the work. The hotel
will be located at the south end, and ac
cording to the plans will be a very hand
some as well as convenient and substan
tial structure. It is estimated that the
hotel will cost about $15,000. The con
struction of the tramway will cost about
$5,000.
The greatest interest was manifested
in the projects for the development of the
island, and those concerned evinced an
earnestness which argues most favorably
for the accomplishment of the designs
for converting the island into an attract
ive summer resort before the commence -
ment of the next season. In fact, it is
believed that it the hotel is completed
during the winter, numbers will take up
their sojourn on tho island in the early
spring.
The construction of the tramway is of
prime importance, and will be commenced
first.
After arranging preliminaries and dis
cussing further the objects in view, tho
following gentlemen were appointed an
Executive Committee, to carry out the
wishes of the stockholders:
Capt. John McMahon, Major N. O.
Tilton, Capt. T. F. Screven, Capt. Jos.
A. Roberts and A. Gomrn, Esq.
It Was a Bee.
[From the Detroit Free Press.]
Any one passing along Howard street
just before noon, yesterday, would have
seen him lying under one of the shade
trees in his yard, a pillow under his held,
his feet on a bench, and a magazine in
his hands. He looked the picture of
comfort and contentment, and the women
who were going along with pull-back
dresses on sighed and wished they were
men.
The great city hall bell struck the hour
of noon. The deep-toned echoes floated
out on the still summer air and touched
a tender chord in the Howard street man’s
heart. The echoes sounded to him like
funeral whispers—like the whispers of
the night wind sighing through the grand
old wilderness.
“Oh! solemn bell!” be said. “Oh!
sad, solemn !”
That was all he said about the bell. A
bumble bee settled down on him to look
for sugar, and as he turned partly over
be gave the bee a rub. It is a bad thing
to rub any kind of a bee. He feels in
sulted and gets annoyed at things which
a mud turtle or a dove would pass by
without a thought. The echoes of the
bell were just dying away when the How
ard street man got up. He got up like a
man in a hurry. He went away from
there. He didn’t meander—he went like
a rocket. Something seemed to ail him.
He made a line for the house, went up
the steps at a bound, and, as bis wife
asked him the cause of his baste, he re
plied :
‘ ‘Thunder—oop! hoop! ”
“Is this house on fire ?” she asked, as
he tore around the parlor and upset
things.
“House be oop! Lordy!” b
answered, as he made a circuit of the
room and dashed into the house.
The dog rushed after him: the wife
rushed after the dog, and the man
bounded out of the house.
“Are you crazy, Robert?” shrieked the
wife, as she beheld him pounding his logs
with his silk hat.
Two or three boys ran in from the
street; a strange dog came in and got up
a fight, and all things conspired to make
a lively time.
“ He’s got the colic !” yelled one of the
boys.
“Or the tremers!” shouted another.
“See that hat!” called a third.
“Boys, go out of here!” whispered the
panting man as he stopped using his hat.
They went out and as he limped into the
house, his tearful wife asked:
“Now, then, will you tell me what has
happened ?”
“No, I won’t!” he shouted, and he
didn’t. She fell into hysterics at the
thought that he had used his brain too
much, and had suddenly become crazed;
and he went down to the drug store and
applied arnica to the spot, and informed
the clerk that eleven thousand of the
largest kind of bumble bees settled right
down on him in a body.
Watering-Place Poetry. —A young
fellow from Brooklyn, writes Eli Perkins,
who wears a dyed moustache, paper col
lar, velvet coat and big solitaire diamond
ring, has been spending his time in
writing his name around on Saratoga
mirrors, window panes, Ac. This morn
ing he took the early train for Richfield,
all because one of our pretty girls wrote
under his name with her little diamond :
“Whtu'er I see a fellow’s name
Written on the glass,
I know he owns a diamond,
And hie father Qwaa an see.’ 1
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Nummary f the Week'* Itlnpatrhra
DEATH BY LIGHTNING.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Brunswick, August 17.
During a thunder storm this evening
John Chaffiin, from Satilla Mills, and A.
M. Tinker, of No. 13, Macon and Bruns
wick Road, were struck by lightuing.
Chaffiin was instantly killod and Tinker
was badly hurt.
ON THE RIGHT TRACK.
Detroit, August 17.—The following is
the call for tho Greenback Convention,
which is to assemble in this city next
week. It is signed by Hon. Moses W.
Field, Chairman:
“In view of the stagnation in all kinds
of productive business, tho paralysis of
industries, the distress to labor with
their hands for the support of their
families, produced by false and vicious
legislation upon the finances of the
country, the fostering of monopolies and
the giving of the money-lenders an undue
advantage in productiveness over every
other property, thereby discriminating
against the earnings of labor—therefore
all who are in favor of a reform in the
government and action in this regard are
invited to attend a convention at Detroit
on Wednesday, August 25, 1875.’’
The following propositions will be dis
cussed: To see if a currency issued by the
government for the people cannot be
sanctioned and adopted which will not
place the ejitire business of the country
in the hnuds of bankers, brokers and
speculators in money; to provide means
whereby every man will be enabled to
invest to tbe extent of bis menus in the
. public securities now exclusively within
the reach of the capitalist and the bank;
opposition to the tax now imposed on
leaf tobacco and all other domestic pro
ductions: the repeal of the whole system
of internal revenue taxation as soon ns
practicable, and the raising of all
revenue required for the support of the
government by taxation on imports
and foreign productions. The extinguish
ment of all cuirency issued by banking
corporations, and the return to one cur
rency only, provided by tho government
for the use anil benefit of the people, and
the immediate repeal of the act of Janu
ary It, 1875, fixing the day for the re
sumption of specie payment.
Tho following named gentleman will
address the meeting: Hon. William D.
Kelly, of Pennsylvania; Gen. John B.
Gordon, of Georgia: Hon. James Bucli
anau, of Indiana; Hon. Matt. 11. Car
peuter, of Wisconsin, and lion. 11. M.
Horton, of Illinois.
ESCAPE OF A SWINDLER.
Charleston, August 17.—There was an
exciting time last evening in Columbia,
caused by tho proceedings under habeas
corpus for the release of ex-Treasurer
Parker. The application was heard at
five p. m. before Judge Mackey, Parker’s
counsel claiming his discharge under the
provision of the Constitution prohibiting
imprisonment for debt. The Sheriff's
return failed to allege that the case was
one of fraud, a charge which is expressly
excepted in the Constitutional prohibi
tion of imprisonment for debt, and
after argument the Judge released
the prisoner. The court room was
filled with an excited crowd, and
Parker was immediately rearrested on
a criminal warrant for grand larceny, but
his counsel waived an examination, and,
urging that the amount involved in
alleged robbery had nothing to do with
the amount of bail, succeeded in getting
bim released on two thousand dollars bail.
It is generally believed that Parker will
escape and forfeit his bail. The News
and Courier denounces the release of
Parker as a gross judicial outrage and a
job put up by certain-State officials, who
feared Parker would implicate them in
his enormous robberies.
A PHILADELPHIA FIEND.
Philadelphia, August 17.- — A well
known wealthy married man named John
L. Kates was before a magistrate to-day,
charged with a fiendish assault on Miss
Pemberton. It appears that Kates
seduced her when she was about fifteen
years old, and she claims that he has kept
her in a life of slavery ever since. Re
cently she attended a picnic without his
permission, and when she returned he
charged her with infidelity, knocked hor
down, beat her in a brutal manner and
then tore her clothes off her person, and
after pouring burning fluid all over her,set
fire to her and endeavored to burn her
alive. The interference of some of the
people in the house prevented the con
summation of this design. On Friday
evening last he whipped hor in a brutal
manner, and swore he would disfigure
her so that she would never be able to go
out. Great efforts were made by the in
terested parties to keep the details of the
affair from the public. Kates was held
in $2,200 bail for appearance at court.
A LAX BEECHER.
Newburgh, N. Y., August 17.—This
afternoon Robert Gibson, Assistant
Superintendent of the Newburgh water
works, attempted to murder Alfred Post,
a prominent resident of the city,
and President of the Highland
National Bank, of Newburgh, by
firing a pistol at him in the street. The
bullet grazed Post’s neck. Gibson aimed
for a second shot, but in the excitement
failed to cock the weapon, and Post got
out of the way before Gibson could fire
again. The latter was secured and com
mitted without bail. Gibson charges
that Post had something to do with his
wife’s leaving him.
NEGRO TROUBLES.
Augusta, Ga., August 18. — There is
much excitement to-day in Washington
and Jefferson counties on account of the
reported attempt by the negroes at insur
rection. Eighty arrests were made, and
the white military companies in those
counties were ordered by the Governor to
report to the Sheriff. The prisoners were
all lodged in jail without resistance. The
alleged plot contemplated a massacre of
the whites on the 20th instant. It is
thought now that there will be no fur
ther trouble, though the details are
meagre and indefinite.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
St. Joseph, Mo., August 18. —There
was an accident yesterday on the St.
Louis and St. Joseph branch of the St.
Louis, Kansas City and Northern Rail
road. As the tram was passing over the
trestlework over IJry branch, six miles
south of Gover station, Clinch county,
the structure gave way, precipitating the
mail, express and two passenger cars
down a distance of twenty feet. One
person was killed and over forty injured.
THE YELLOW FEVER.
Washington, August 17. —Commodore
Cooper telegraphs from the Pensacola
navy yard under yesterday’s date that
there is no fever in the yard or vicinity.
One of the marines stationed outside of
quarantine, near Barrancas,died Saturday,
and others are sick but doing well. The
others who were stationed there have
been sent to the quarantine station at
Live Oak in charge of Jjr. Martin.
WHEAT FAILURES.
Chicago, August 17.—Several small
dealers on the Board of Trade, who are
on the long side of wheat, have failed,
owing to the continued decline. A large
firm is embarrassed from tho banks re
fusing their accustomed discounts. It is
believed they will continue business to
day.
POOR GRIMWOOD.
Chicago, August 17.—A special to the
Evening Journal from Whitehall, Michi
gan, says: “The body of Grimwood,
who ascended with Donaldson, has been
found, fully dressed, except his boots.
Letters belonging to Grimwood, and notes
of his balloon trip were found in his
pockets.”
AN ELOPER.
Brockton, August 18. —Joseph W.
Robinson, a member of the firm of
which his father is head, eloped with
Mrs. Hall, after having robbed tlie safe
of the firm of all available funds and
some $4,000 in government bonds. He
leaves a wife and two children.
south Carolina’s thief.
Charleston, August 17.-—After his re
lease last night, Parker went to his house,
and it is now ascertained that he took the
train for Augusta at three a. m. Prob
ably he will never again be seen in Sou th
Carolina.
WADDY,
Memphis, August 17. —Waddy Thomp
son was released from jail to-day on a
bond of 8 ">,OOO for his appearance at the
November term of tbe court.
FROM KENTUCKY.
Louisville, August 17. —The official
report makes MoCreery’s majority 301,-
191. The House stands; Democrats 90,
Republicans 10, *
LETTER FROM DAVIS.
Memphis. Tenn , August 15. 1875
Henry P. Kimball , Secretary of tbe Win
nebago County Agricultural Soeietu
Rockford, fll. :
Dear Sir— l yesterday sent to you n
telegram announcing my revocation of
my conditional acceptance of the invita
tion to address your association at their
annual meeting in September next. The
long period which has elapsed since the
receipt of your first letter, and the con
siderate courtesy which has marked your
correspondence, make it necessary that a
sufficient explanation should be given of
this change of purpose. Three objects
mainly induced mo to accept your invi
tation :
First. The hope that personal inter
course might remove some of the preju
dices which had been generated by parti
zan factions and nurtured by individual
and sectional bate, and anxious, as in
former years, to promote the interest of
our great valley of the Mississippi, and
believing that with mutual confideniv
and co intelligence much could he done
for their advancement, sorely delayed,
prompted my acceptance of your invita
tion. The productive capacity of the
Northwest needs for its development
cheaper and safer transportation to the
markets of the Southwest, and also to
foreign countries. Iu England, especially,
earnest attention has been directed
for several years past to the more direct
and economical trade with the Missis
sippi valley. In this connection, it was
my desire to confer with tbe Patrons of
Husbandry in your rich and prosperous
section, to discuss with them tbe ques
tions involved in securing better means
of transporting your farm produce to the
most favorable markets, and providing
agencies which should insure larger re
turns to farmers, and, by such conference,
to learn the views not only of one mem
ber of the family of the Mississippi
valley—a family, the chief interest of all
the members of which is agriculture—but
tbe cultivators of such various crops as
to make trade among themselves ex
tensive and lucrative, while it stamps on
each and all the same interests and the
same policy as to their foreign trade. To
render such conference effectual there
must needs be a disposition to attend to
the subject under consideration —surely
not a purpose to smother it by the inter
position of matters haviug no just rela
tion to it.
Second. An effort was made to rocog
uize the courtesy of your board, and I
was encouraged to believe that your re
oeption of me would be beneficial, rather
than injurious, to your association. This
was the more supposable because several
other agricultural societies of Illinois had,
in like manner, invited me to address
their annual meetings. Yesterday I
received a printed paper, it * lin
ing a protest of a number of your
fellow-countrymen against the actions of
your board is their invitation to me to
make the annual address at the county
meeting. Thereupon I sent a telegram
withdrawing my acceptance of the invi
tation, under the consideration that it
would not be useful or agreeable to par
ticipate in the meeting, and I hope t hat
neither your association nor the Directors
will suffer harm by delay in procuring an
orator, or by the correspondence which
has caused it.
Third. The object was to gratify tho
wishes long entertained to see in its cul
tivated dress the country known to me ns
a trackless wilderness, but that being
merely a personal gratification it may be
indulged at niv convenience or postponed
indefinitely. I can well believe that the
cause which has changed my purpose was
as unforeseen by you as by me, and you
may be assured that I feel no dissatisfac
tion towards tho directors or yourself, anil
have suffered no personal embarrassment
from the event. As the invitation was mi
expected and only acceptable as an ex
pression of general good will, so my only
regret is the loss of an opportunity to
promote the public interest with which
the welfare of your community is i l< nti
lieil. Again expressing the hope (hat
neither tho directors nor yourself; maT
suffer injury or annoyance, and 1
you for tho kindness and considi ite.n
you have manifested, I am
Yours respectfully,
J EFFERSON D.l VIS.
CROI'S IN THE WEST.
Cincinnati, August 111. The Price
Current, which has reports from threo
hundred and fifty points, in nearly as
many counties, gives the foliowiVi snn
mary of the wheat crop: “Reports in
dicate, in Ohio and Indiana, a ful : aver
rage acreage, with the yield somewhat
short, large losses by rain, and quality
very inferior. The Illinois crop is below
an average condition, anil the quality is
inferior. Iu Ohio the acreage is about
as usual, and was generally harvested in
good condition. There was some damage
by blight and other causes. The crop is
not a full acreage, and the quality' is in
ferior. Missouri is considerably short,
and materially damaged. The Kentucky
crop is up to an average amount, hut
largely and badly damaged. Michigan
has a fair crop. Wisconsin has a very
good crop, and in good condition.”
Oats —There was a large destruction
and damage in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana
and Illinois, and a portion of Missouri,
while the acreage was increased; and
Michigan, Wisconsin and lowa show a
large production.
Corn was largely increased in acreage,
and is very promising outside of portions
of the Ohio valley, and if the crop
matures in the North and Northwest it
will bo much greater than usual.
Cattle and hogs are generally in better
condition than a year ago, and in many
sections are feeding on damaged grain.
Potatoes promise an unusually large
crop throughout nearly all these sections.
LAW AND ORDER IN A “LOYAL” STATE.
St. Louis, August 18.—A special from
Benton, Franklin county, Illinois, says :
“Ten disguised raeD have been whipping
and otherwise abusing the people of Wil
liamson and Franklin counties. J. B
Maddox, County Commissioner, received
information that the marauders would
visit his house and whip him for not
complying with one of their orders.
Maddox notified the Sheriff, who sum
moiled twenty men anil concealed
them in Maddox’s house. About two
o’clock in tho morning fourteen
men approached, disguised and mounted.
The Sheriff demanded their surren
der. The leader fired, missing the
Sheriff. The band then wheeled to make
off, when the posse fired, fatally wound
ing one and injuring five. All got away
but the man fatally hurt, who gave the
names of tho others. A citizens’ meeting
resolved to rid the country of these men.
The band numbers four hundred. Gov.
Beveridge has sent one hundred stand of
arms to the county. Bloody results are
expected.
INDIAN TALKS.
Muskogee, Indian Territory, August
Iff- —The ceremonies of laying the corner
stone of the Union Agency Building, for
five of the largest nations of’the Indian
Territories—the Cherokees, the ( tioo
taws, the Creeks, the Chickasaw , and the
Seminole tribes—took place yesterday at
Prospect Hill, near this place, m the
Creek Nation, under the auspices of the
Grand Lodge of Masons of the Terri
tory. Delegations were present from
Missouri, Kansas, Texas, and different
parts of the territory. The best feeling
prevailed. Speeches were made by Col
Ross, the Cherokee Chief, and E. C.
Boudiuot, in English, by Samuel L.
Cheole, Chief of the Creeks, in his
native tongue, which was interpreted.
The remarks were eloquent, breathing
good will on the part of the Indians, a
desire to fulfil all their treaty stipulations
and to cultivate closer relations with the
people of the United States.
A RADICAL SPLIT.
Memphis, August 18.--A special from
Senatobia to the Appeal says the liepub
lican Congressional Convention of the
First Mississippi District split. One
wing, numbering twenty-four delegates,
withdrew, and assembling in front of the
hotel nominated G. Wiley Wells, ex-
United States District Attorney, for Con
gress, while the other wiDg, numbering
thirty-six, nominated A. K. Howe.
ABSCONDED.
San Francisco, August 18.—A private
telegram says: “James S. Giles, the
Postmaster at Prescott, Arizona, has ab
sconded. Money orders to the amount
of $3,700 are unaccounted for. A deputy
United States Marshal is in pursuit of
Giles.”
LARGE SALE OF TOBACCO.
Raleigh, August 18. —The largest sale
of tobacco ever made in North Carolina
was from the large manufactory of W. T.
Blackwell A Cos., Durham, this morning,
filling a Philadelphia order for 2,500
cases, amounting to over !$<!<),000.
A NABTYCHUBETTS SENTENCE.
Fitchburg, Mass., August 18. —Joseph
Lapoint, convicted of rape, has been sen
tenced to fifteen years in the peniten
tiary.